Exploration

Exploration Roundup

Wallbridge Mining has completed rehabilitation of existing underground workings and commenced ramp development and underground diamond drilling as part of a 35,000-metric-ton (mt) bulk sample and underground exploration program at its 100% owned Fenelon gold property...

Australia’s largest gold mining company, Newcrest Mining, has entered into six gold exploration joint ventures in Australia’s Northern Territory and Western Australia, one with ABM Resources and five with Encounter Resources. The ABM-Newcrest joint venture is based on...

ATAC Resources has announced plans for three 2018 exploration projects on its 1,700-km2 Rackla gold property in east-central Yukon, Canada. Included are the Orion project, where Barrick Gold is working on an earn-in option agreement, and the Osiris and Rau projects,...

Global spending on the search for nonferrous metals deposits rose to an estimated $8.4 billion in 2017, up from $7.3 billion in 2016, according to a report released by S&P Global Market Intelligence at the 2018 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada...

Exploration Briefs

Endeavour Mining’s ongoing exploration program in the Kari area 7 kilometers (km) west of its Houndé mine and processing plant in Burkina Faso has successfully extended the Kari Pump high-grade mineralization discovered in 2017...

Kirkland Lake Gold has reported high-grade drill results at depth from drilling at the Robbin’s Hill area in a structure parallel to the Fosterville trend, which hosts the company’s Fosterville mine in Victoria state, Australia....

North American Palladium has reported encouraging results from the winter exploration program at its Sunday Lake project 25 km northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Highlights include an intercept of 18.65 m of 4.05 g/mt combined...

Northisle Copper and Gold has signed a joint-venture agreement with Freeport- McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada in relation to Northisle’s Pemberton Hills property on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Under the terms of the...

Iamgold plans to drill approximately 50,000 meters of diamond and reverse circulation holes at its Saramacca deposit in Suriname in 2018, with goals of improving resource classification, declaring reserves and advancing mine...

Orion Minerals has announced initial mineral resources for its Prieska zinc-copper project in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. As of year-end 2017, Orion had completed approximately 42,000 m of drilling on the project’s...

Kootenay Silver discovered a new area of multi-gram gold and silver mineralization with high lead on surface at its 100% owned La Cigarra silver project in Chihuahua, Mexico. Gold mineralization has been traced by prospecting,...